topic Re: Competitions in Plusnet Feedback

Competitions

gwillym — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:02:07 GMT

That are not open to all of your subscribers - unfair.
I refer to your latest 'win an ipad' competition which requires the entrant to have a Facebook account. I abhor social media do not and will never have such an account and therefore am prevented from entering.
thanks very much, I don't think

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Oldjim — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:13:40 GMT

I agree completely

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davidg52 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:17:43 GMT

Ditto

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RobPN — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:22:30 GMT

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keith4x4 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:04:58 GMT

and another one (Social media = 12 year old school girl mentality)

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jelv — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:57:53 GMT

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x47c — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:58:21 GMT

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gromittz — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:12:40 GMT

#+1

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charlesb224 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:13:46 GMT

+1
I had a rant at topcashback for the same thing with a competition that required a facebook account.

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Chris — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:14:52 GMT

We do prize draws via different mediums and for different reasons, this one is to increase our awareness on Facebook. I understand that not everyone uses Facebook, but as the saying goes 'you can't please all the people all the time'.

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Alex — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:49:59 GMT

Alex likes this thread (sorry).
Yeah I guess it's just a way to get free advertising within Facebook, the cost of the iPad being far less than the advertising itself.
Think it's more outrageous it's the WiFi only 16GB model (i.e. cheapest one) on offer, come on PlusNet you could have at least gone for the 64Gb 3G model?

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jelv — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:16:58 GMT

Quote from: Chris
'you can't please all the people all the time'.

But that is no excuse for upsetting some of the people all of the time! Your recent history of competitions isn't good:
September 25th, 2013 Win an iPad - Facebook members only
August 1st, 2013 Yorkshire day 18 months free unlimited fibre broadband - Facebook members only
July 25th, 2013 Gadgets of the future Ouya game consoles - only twits can enter
May 7th, 2013 Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon place - Facebook members only
March 14th, 2013 Win an iPad - Facebook members only
I've obviously missed the recent competitions open to people who don't do Faceache and who are not twits - could you point me to them please.

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Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:21:59 GMT

None of my family want or will ever sign up for Facebook or Twitter - they are clearly services for moronic or gullible people who need to get a life

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w23 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:30:39 GMT

Quote from: gwillym
I abhor social media do not and will never have such an account and therefore am prevented from entering.

Strictly speaking you are only prevented from entering by your own (however sensible) choice.
I am prevented from wining the national lottery by my choice not to waste money on a ticket.
I miss out on newspaper competitions by choosing not buying newspapers.

I have entered the Plusnet competition on Facething (thanks for the 'heads-up' btw) but I think my chances of winning are minimal so I will probably be no worse off than you.

Quote from: purleigh
None of my family want or will ever sign up for Facebook or Twitter - they are clearly services for moronic or gullible people who need to get a life

Or you could sign up just to enter competitions (and take no further part).

It would be nice if a decent proportion of Plusnet competitions were operated via the Plusnet home page rather than elsewhere though - by all means link to them from Facething, Twitty etc. but I'd have thought that getting punters onto the Plusnet site might be better from a marketing perspective anyway.
Instead of i-thing prizes, what about a year's broadband?

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JamesM — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:36:14 GMT

Quote from: purleigh
None of my family want or will ever sign up for Facebook or Twitter - they are clearly services for moronic or gullible people who need to get a life

What an absolutely moronic thing to say, I have heard some gibberish in my time but some of the people in these forums are just the most idiotic self righteous people I have ever seen writing in forums. If you don't use Facebook then that is your prerogative but DO NOT call others moronic or gullible because they want to keep in touch with friends and relatives in other parts of the world. I don't use Facebook, but a lot of my family and friends do and you have just insulted them, which in turn insults me.
I feel sorry for people like you who are single minded and insult others just because they use something you do not like. Wind your neck in you small minded little person.
Then there is jelv, another one who just spouts gibberish, thinking he is clever with his thinly veiled insults, calling people who use twitter "twits", a person who started a thread called constructive posting, what a joke, take a look at your posts and tell me where the constructive words are, you are one of the worst offenders of insults, you are so pathetic it is laughable.
As for the competitions only being open to Facebook users and other social media services, welcome to the 21st century.

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Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:51:52 GMT

Plusnet should offer competitions from within the Plusnet "Member Centre".
It could be done in such a way that each competition highlights some feature within the Member Centre, and then asks a question about it.
This could be done in such a way that infrequent Member Centre users get to learn what features are available, and can be used to highlight opportunities to make the most of their package.

There are many examples where customers could be educated about what is available to them -
1) If this had been done when 'Unlimited' was released, perhaps less people would be complaining about not being aware of it's existence.
2) VMBU and setting additional allowance limits.
3) How to use the help and ticketing system effectively.
4) Low take-up features could be highlighted, e.g. VoIP, webmail, referrals, etc...
5) How to find service status and sign up for service email updates.
There would be plenty of scope for monthly competitions to last several years, and would be more interesting then the existing "Vote in our poll" on the home page.

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peter10 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:57:26 GMT

I agree totally with jelv. It would make a nice change if at least some of the competitions were open to all PN subscribers. Maybe most people do subscribe to Facebook etc. but I would guess a sizeable minority don't (including myself). Many competitions give more than one way of entering so why can't PN?

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jelv — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:13:11 GMT

@JamesM
I am way, way, way from being the first person to refer to twitter users as twits. In fact the usage is so common that it's made it in to the urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twit - see 5b

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JamesM — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:26:51 GMT

Well that makes it ok then, considering one of the definitions is bugger
jim:red Removed that really wasn't necessary mod:end

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Chris — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:31:20 GMT

All, I see that some people are frustrated that our recent prize draws haven't been open to those that don't want to go on Facebook or Twitter, however that does NOT excuse some of the posts in this thread. More than 1 of the posts could easily be construed as a personal attack, so stop the name calling ok.